The Panel of Senior Advisers was founded in 2008 to provide Chatham House with an experienced sounding board for our policy conclusions and help communicate our ideas at the highest levels in the UK and abroad.

Chair: The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG, CH

• Ayman Asfari
  Group Chief Executive, Petrofac Ltd
   
• Shumeet Banerji
  Senior Partner, Booz & Company
  
  
• Lord Browne of Madingley
  President, Royal Academy of Engineering; and Chief Executive, BP (1995-2007)
  
  
• R. Nicholas Burns
  Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, US Department of State (2005-08); US Ambassador to NATO (2001-05)
  
  
• Victor Chu
  Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong
  
  
• Tim Clark
  Senior Adviser to G3 and Fleming Family & Partners
   
• Lord Davies of Abersoch CBE
  Partner and Vice Chairman, Corsair Capital
  
  
• Suzan Sabancı Dinçer CBE
  Chairman and Executive Board Member, Akbank
  
  
• Mary Francis CBE
  Non-Executive Director, Centrica plc and Swiss Reinsurance Company; Director, Bank of England (2001-07)
   
• Dame Clara Furse DBE
  External Member, Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England; Non-Executive Director, Nomura Holdings, Amadeus IT Holdings and Department for Work and Pensions, UK
   
• James Gaggero
  Chairman, Bland Group Ltd
  
  
• André Hoffmann
  Vice-Chairman, Board of Roche Holding Ltd
   
• Lord Hurd of Westwell 
  UK Foreign Secretary (1989-1995)
  
  
• Lord Jay of Ewelme
  Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign Office (2002-06)
  
  
• Sir Paul Judge
  Chairman, Schroder Income Growth Fund plc; Deputy Chairman, Royal Society of Arts
   
• Dame DeAnne Julius DCMG, CBE
  Independent Non-Executive Director of Deloitte (UK), Roche Holdings SA (Switzerland), and Jones Lang LaSalle (USA)
   
• Nemir Kirdar
  Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO, Investcorp
  
  
• Caio Koch-Weser
  Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group; Deputy Finance Minister for Germany (1999-2005)
  
  
• Marc Leland
  President, Marc E Leland and Associates, USA; Co-Chairman, German Marshall Fund of the United States
  
  
• Rachel Lomax
  Deputy Governor, Monetary Policy, the Bank of England (2003-08)
  
  
• Sir David Manning
  British Ambassador to the United States (2003-07); foreign affairs and defence adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair (2001-03)
  
  
• Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE
  Chairman of the Independent Schools Council and The New West End Company
  
  
• Sir Michael Rake
  Chairman, BT and EasyJet
  
  
• Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
  Secretary General, NATO (1999-2003)
  
  
• Andrés Rozental
  Former Mexican diplomat; founding president of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations; chairman of ArcelorMittal Mexico; non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
   
• Kevin Rudd
  Prime Minister of Australia (2007-10)
   
• Daniel Sachs
  Chief Executive Officer, Proventus AB
  
  
• John C Whitehead
  Founding Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, USA; former Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs